In the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, a criminal case has been opened against two Jehovah's Witnesses from the village of Zelenchukskaya for participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the regional Investigative Committee on its official website. The names of the believers are not indicated.

Residents of the Moscow district of Krylatskoye were denied permission to hold a rally against the development of the Krylatskie Hills park. This was reported in the activists' Telegram channel. The event was supposed to take place on August 8. The ZAO administration refused to approve it, citing coronavirus restrictions. Since mid-March 2020, regional authorities have gradually begun to ban public events.

The Supreme Court upheld the sentence of human rights activist Bakhrom Khamroev - 13 years and 9 months of imprisonment. This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Center. At the end of May 2023, Khamroev was sentenced to 14 years in prison: three years of which the human rights activist must spend in prison, and the rest of the term in a maximum security penal colony. For another four years after serving his sentence, the man will be prohibited from administering websites.

The Aleksinsky Interdistrict Court of the Tula Region fined foreign citizen Okhunjon Isabaev 35,000 rubles for conducting namaz in an industrial zone. This was reported by the press service of the regional courts. The man was found guilty under the article on the implementation of missionary activity by a foreign citizen in violation of the requirements of the law (Part 5 of Article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

15 prisoners of Russian pre -trial detention centers and colonies and one convict in Belarus were issued as part of the exchange for Russians concluded in other countries. This is reported by CBS, the exchange is also confirmed by anonymous sources of Bloomberg and other publications.

The Prosecutor General's Office has declared four new organizations "undesirable." SOTA has drawn attention to this. The list includes two charitable foundations: the Czech Za vaši a naši svobodu and the German Russland hinter gittern, the legal entity registered in Germany by the founder of “Rus Sidyashcheya” Olga Romanova MRR-Fund gemeinnützige, as well as the Czech festival Kulturus.

A resident of the annexed Crimea was detained in a case of repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the local Investigative Committee. According to information from a Telegram channel associated with the security forces, the man's name is Oleg Shaposhnikov.

Former priest of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), Hieromonk John Kurmoyarov, was released from IK-5 Metallostroy in St. Petersburg, where he served time in a case of disseminating "fakes" about the Russian army motivated by political hatred (clause "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by RusNews. The man was prosecuted for a video he posted in March 2022. The video said that Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine would go to hell, not heaven.

A resident of Biysk in the Altai Territory has been charged with publicly justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of a comment on VKontakte about a drone attack on Moscow. This was reported by the Kuzbass Without Extremism channel, which is affiliated with the security forces. A man born in 1990 was detained.

A 45-year-old native of Ukraine was detained in the Smolensk region in connection with a case of public calls for terrorist activity (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has softened the punishment by removing the fine from the sentence of former employee of Navalny's headquarters Alexander Strukov. This was reported by RAPSI with reference to the court's press service. The court removed the fine because it overturned the sentence under the article on insulting the feelings of believers (Part 2 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code) due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

On July 31, the Military Court of Appeal upheld the sentence of 46-year-old Ukrainian citizen Sergei Karmazin on appeal - 25 years of imprisonment. The case file is available on the court's website. The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced 46-year-old Karmazin on March 28. In addition to the prison term, the first six years of which the man will spend in prison, he was fined 700 thousand rubles.

In Karelia, FSB officers are conducting a search of independent journalist Valery Potashov, the From Karelia with freedom Telegram channel reports . It is unknown what the search was connected with. 14:13 They also came with a search to the editorial office of the publication "Stolitsa na Onego", where Potashov worked until 2023. This was written by "Karelia.News" with reference to the editor-in-chief of "Stolitsa" Tatyana Sokolova. "Everything is very correct and respectful.

The former head of Navalny's Barnaul headquarters, Vadim Ostanin, was taken from the Rubtsovsk colony to Moscow. This was reported by activist Artem Sakharov, citing his lawyer . Ostanin was detained at the end of 2021.